Mar 18 – 22, 2021
Stony Brook, NY
US/Eastern timezone

A Novel Scintillator Detector for the Mu2e-II Experiment and a Muon Tomography Search for Hidden Chambers in the Great Pyramid

Mar 18, 2021, 3:00 PM
15m
Stony Brook, NY

Stony Brook, NY

Online [US/EST Timezone]
Photodetectors Photodetectors

Speaker

E. Craig Dukes (University of Virginia)

Description

The Mu2e experiment is designed to search for the charged-lepton-flavor-violating process, 𝜇− to a 𝑒−, with unprecedented sensitivity. The single 105-MeV electron that results from this process can be mimicked by electrons produced by cosmic-ray muons traversing the detector. An active veto detector surrounding the apparatus is used to detect incoming cosmic-ray muons. To reduce the backgrounds to the required level it must have an efficiency of about 99.99\% as well as excellent hermeticity. The detector consists of four layers of scintillator counters, each with two embedded wavelength-shifting fibers, whose light is detected by silicon photomultipliers. An upgrade of the experiment, Mu2e-II, that will provide an order of magnitude more sensitivity is under design. The cosmic-ray veto detector is being redesigned to handle the higher rates. This redesign is also being used for a proposed high-resolution search for hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The design and expected performance of the detector will be described.

Primary authors

E. Craig Dukes (University of Virginia) E. Craig Dukes (University of Virginia)

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